When You Were Mine is the sixth studio album by English singer and musician John Waite, released by Mercury/Pure in 1997.

I kind of went country in an English way, but it's a beautiful record.

"[2] He told Classic Rock Revisited that year: "When You Were Mine has strong acoustic values, and tells stories.

"[3] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic considered the album to "tone down [Waite's] hard rock influences in an attempt to regain the adult contemporary radio audience he once had".

He concluded: "Although the results aren't entirely successful, there's enough well-crafted mainstream pop here to satisfy longtime fans.